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Secrets and Lies

Bruce Schneier in Secrets and Lies says:

"We're only a few generations from being able to record our entire lives -- in audio and video-- . . ."

This never occurred to me before..  it really is a defining thought.  I have a feeling that it may only be a single generation.  Yeah, in 30 years it may be possible, but it may be 60 until it can be done cheaply enough to make it practical for everybody who wants to.

I bet right now you could record all your audio conversations.  With a pocket PC and a little innovation it would be almost trivial.  I’m sure you could even do it with less.  It’s not like there is not a lack of consumer targeted products for digital recording.  Just imagine if you could ask yourself:  What was I doing 15 years ago today and answer that question with a video of just what you were doing.  What a powerful tool that could be..  for good and evil.

Posted: Jul 15 2003, 12:48 PM by bcoverston | with 2 comment(s)

Comments

Kenneth LeFebvre said:

The *real* leap will be when we can intelligently search all that mess of recordings!

I would bet that if people thought they could easily *use* the recordings, they would already be doing this. The problem isn't so much doing the recording as it is making use of them after the fact...

(hmmm.... maybe that's why the MSN Bot was unleashed... :)
# July 15, 2003 1:17 PM

HumanCompiler said:

Agreed...there have been quite a few articles recently on that subject of..."ok, we have all this data, now what?" Tons of companies have been keeping track of tons and tons of data and now that they have it, they don't know what to do with it...Data Mining. ;)
# July 15, 2003 2:05 PM